Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [pron] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | At present hospitals and community services often use the translation services of a relative who is bilingual , or of a kitchen porter or nurse who may know nothing of mental health problems , or of anyone in the vicinity who happens to speak the language . |
2 | Then out on to an assignment or with somebody in the field for a couple of days whichever company you go into . |
3 | If so , was she bigger than him or above him in the pecking order ? |
4 | ‘ Generally speaking most tradesmen have some ways peculiar to themselves which they either derived from masters who taught them or from the experience of things or from something in the course of business ’ , but this did not strictly apply to undertakers , |
5 | I was struck too by the way in which we started the programme by considering the dangers of the situation and there 's no doubt that that 's correct , but it is important to say , perhaps the most important thing is that the end of is n't in the Soviet Union and the break up of the Soviet Empire is an enormously positive event for all of us , for the citizens of the Soviet Union and for us in the West it gives the opportunity for much greater stability , real stability , peace and prosperity then ever existed under the old regime . |
6 | He would be up and after them in the blink of an eye . |
7 | Section 303 of the Companies Act 1985 provides that a company may by ordinary resolution remove a director before the expiration of his or her period of office and despite anything in the company 's articles or in any agreement between the company and the director . |
8 | He was wearing his raincoat and behind him in the hall stood his suitcase and a scuffed , imitation-leather flight bag . |
9 | Under his arm was a heavy shoulder-holster and behind him in the doorway stood a policeman in blue shirt , bow tie , white crash helmet and riding breeches . |
10 | Given that ( irrationally and indefensibly , the reader must conclude ) Local Education Authorities varied wildly among themselves and within themselves in the scale of grammar-school provision , that variation had a powerful effect upon the preparation of the whole age group staying on at school to the age of seventeen . |
11 | Each step leads us upward and forward , each providing further transformation of our lives before God and before ourselves in the light of God . |
12 | Athena appears in the first and last and in one other at each end ; Hermes with her in the first and without her in the Cerberus , where his presence is necessary as the hero 's guide to the Underworld . |
13 | Yes , Mr Chairman , I , erm , I , I , I do appreciate that erm , I 've been invited through Committee er , to go through what I do represent er , the building project erm , on behalf of the economic development , because as you all know , I 'm of course on the economic development before , but er , in the past I 've found that that I have er been , shall we say , relieved of my positions on other er , position , erm , unknownst to myself , and of course I have er , actually turned up on these planning functions and been there , and to me in the past , I have always found that if one is going to be missed one must then , one 's either asked if he wishes to continue , if he 's been doing his job properly , if he does n't do his job properly then it 's only right to replace him . |
14 | German police , stretched to their limits in the west and beyond them in the east , are confronted with vast mafia-like structures bound firstly by nationality and secondly by existing criminal hierarchies . |
15 | ‘ Bills must be a headache , ’ I sympathized , ‘ but worth it in the end . ’ |
16 | Ward was very much the old Etonian now , his manner still mild , but with something in the voice that held Rodriguez riveted , both hands on the table and his bottom half out of his seat . |
17 | Everyone knows the fantastical splendours of that fairy-tale citadel called St Pancras and the lost magnificence of the Euston Arch , but beyond them in the rest of Britain stood other wonders : the medieval Gothic abbey that was Richmond Station , the handsome Jacobean mansion that was Stamford East , the elegant French Renaissance château of Southport Lord Street , the trim Alpine hunting-lodge that was Kendal , the airy Edwardian summer-house that was Wemyss Bay . |